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I hope in the next few weeks to spend a weekend taking photos of the wonderful sheds in some allotments around the South Wales valleys – any ideas who I should contact? is there is any protocol for it?
not sure I will be able to match these on our Flickr group..
IF you have a great allotment shed, why not had your shed to our Flickr Group or better still add it to the readersheds.co.uk
My last post about my visit to Cornwall, this time the great sheds at the Eden Project’s Allotment..
Come and see our allotments flourish in our Global Gardeners exhibit. Our hops will be climbing their merry way up towards the sun and our fibre-producing friends, the nettles, look very happy indeed.
Come and see our veg! Our lettuces will be looking lovely throughout May. Colourful stripes of tasty vitamins!
I first went to the Eden Project the year it opened and was looking forward to visiting again, not much changed apart from things have grown a bit.
The telegraph has an article about these British institutions that tend to have sheds on them
photo credit: steve p2008
For those of us who have been ploughing our often lonely furrows for several decades, it is great news that the National Trust is converting some of its rolling acres into 1,000 or so allotments. If nothing else, it raises the status of our compulsive hobby. No longer are we gardeners ragged-trousered eccentrics, but admirable pioneers, helping to save the planet.
Allotments were introduced by philanthropic Victorians to provide a healthy diet and lifestyle for factory workers – and today, when their appeal has crossed the class divide, they offer the same benefits. To nurture a tiny seed until it becomes a plump pumpkin or parsnip fulfils a basic human instinct; digging the first new potato is better for body and soul than turning into one on a couch in front of the TV or laptop.
If you look out of the window of the train next time you go past a site, you will see the familiar and comforting tumbledown sheds, wonky beanpoles, strips of ragged carpet to stifle the weeds and chains of old DVDs flapping in the breeze in a vain attempt to deter pigeons.
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The telegraph reports.
As little as 30 minutes a week tending the garden or allotment can dramatically improve men’s performance in bed, according to the experts in the field.
Digging, weeding or mowing the lawn for half an hour reduced men’s risk of failing to live up to expectations in bed by more than a third, the survey found.
The same study showed other forms of moderate exercise, such as dancing and cycling, could have similar benefits.
Men who spend even more time in the vegetable patch can more than halve their risk of impotence, researchers at the Medical University of Vienna found in their study.
“Erectile function can be maintained even by low, regular physical activity,” concludes the report. “Energy expenditure of as little as 1,000 calories a week reduces the risk. Doctors should use these findings to encourage their patients to do more physical training and adopt a healthier lifestyle.” tending the garden or allotment can dramatically improve men’s performance in bed, according to the experts in the field.
Digging, weeding or mowing the lawn for half an hour reduced men’s risk of failing to live up to expectations in bed by more than a third, the survey found.
The same study showed other forms of moderate exercise, such as dancing and cycling, could have similar benefits.
Men who spend even more time in the vegetable patch can more than halve their risk of impotence, researchers at the Medical University of Vienna found in their study.
“Erectile function can be maintained even by low, regular physical activity,” concludes the report. “Energy expenditure of as little as 1,000 calories a week reduces the risk. Doctors should use these findings to encourage their patients to do more physical training and adopt a healthier lifestyle.”
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